wine users - Feb 2012 - Everquest 2 and Wine 1.3.37

I've been trying to get EQ2 (Streaming Client version) running on Wine
1.3.37 (Fedora 16) 32-bit. I've followed suggestions in previous posts and
have tried everything I've come across. The installer runs and installs,
then when the installer tries to launch the game the SOE splash screen comes up
and disappears (LaunchPad.exe crashes) with the error:

err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr
0xb7749db4

I've tried downgrading to Wine 1.3.29 and up to 1.4.rc2, as well as running
in Win XP, 2008 and Win 7 modes in Wine. Each one crashes. I re-created a fresh
.wine folder, no winetricks, and have it set to run in a 1024x768 window as
mentioned on the appdb page for Everquest 2, but am getting the same result with
LaunchPad.exe crashing. The only thing I haven't done is try downloading the
entire thing (12 GB) and running the full version.

If anybody can help I would be most grateful.. thank you !

Hi,

the usual suspects could be graphics drivers or less probably, kernel updates.
Which graphics card and driver are you using? If you have ATI or NVidia, usually
the latest closed source drivers are recommendend. Sometimes reinstalling driver
helps (possible mismatch between kernel version and driver precompiled for other
kernel version).

If you're asking if it's an official site URL, then the answer is yes, I
believe so.
The game was developed by Sony Online Entertainment (soe).

I had Everquest 2 running both on a Nvidia Geforce 8400GS and Intel Mobile 4
Series (Laptop) the other day. I got the launcher to work by installing all the
VC Redist 2008/2010 x86, Direct X, and dotnet20.